That picture offers the starkest of contrasts with a spectacular 2016 that also brought her major wins in the Australian and U.S. Opens and a runner-up spot at Wimbledon . Everyone who helped me through the hard time. Member of her team wore T-shirts of "Courage, Belief, Pojd" (Come on! in Czech ), celebrated wildly.

Kerr also noted he's "gotten a little better" in recent days, during which he's been running practice. The Warriors . The fact that they haven't lost a single game in the NBA Playoffs is probably why most people are putting the odds in Steph Curry , 29, Kevin Durant , 28, and the Dubs' favor.

Jose Mourinho has insisted that he has "no idea" if Manchester United will sign Antoine Griezmann this summer. It's for him to work because he has holidays in August and in August I'm working. Whether I want to continue doing that or go on and play more regular football. I've been able to show I'm a goalkeeper that can play for this club.

Makarova is now ranked 40th in the world, but she has been as high as No. 8 in the past and she reached the semifinals of the U.S. Open in 2014 and the Australian Open in 2015. "I think it doesn't really matter how I played", but I won, Kvitova said. "As I said last time, I had already won". Six months on from suffering severe damage to her left hand when she was stabbed by an intruder who had broken into her apartment, Kvitova made a welcome comeback at Roland Garros on Sunday.

Kyrie Irving and LeBron James combined for 76 points as the Cleveland Cavaliers battled to a 112-99 victory over the Boston Celtics on Tuesday to move within one game of a place in the NBA Finals . Then, James caught a pass from Irving and threw down a slam dunk that brought the crowd to its feet and got the Cavaliers to within seven points of the Celtics, 61-54, with 8:42 to play in the third quarter.

Castillo spent time in the emergency room Tuesday night after being hurt in the ninth inning of an 8-3 loss to the New York Yankees . " He's got a hematoma there in his groin that we're going to monitor and see how it progresses ", manager Buck Showalter told reporters (via Kubatko).

Monday afternoon the Washington Nationals beat the San Francisco Giants ( WAS 3, SF 0 ) at AT&T Park, and I'm fairly certainly no one will remember the specific run-scoring plays from the game. "The bad thing is, [Harper] will probably get a couple games out of it, when he actually saved other guys from being thrown out by doing that", Wieters said.

That win also ended the Cavaliers'13-game postseason winning streak. We'll always have Avery Bradley's game-winner. Kevin Love added 17 points and 17 rebounds. Should they lose four games to one to the Cavaliers , or some other Eastern Conference team next season, it's not going to play as a feel-good story.

Kerber, who only had a personal best record of a last 16 in this clay season, failed to withstand the strong forehand and backhand attacks from her opponent as she lost the first set 6-2 in 38 minutes. Belief. Pojd." That last word, which is the Czech equivalent of "Come on!" and was spelled on the shirts with a red heart instead of the "o", is often yelled by Kvitova to celebrate particularly good shots.

James bought the 9,440-square-foot house in 2015 for about $20.9 million, according to public records. LeBron James #23 of the Cleveland Cavaliers looks on prior to Game Five of the 2017 NBA Eastern Conference Finals against the Boston Celtics at TD Garden on May 25, 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts.

The defending National Basketball Association champions can wrap up their third straight conference title - and a "three-match" against the Warriors - with a win in Game 5 on Thursday night in Boston. "I told our guys: 'We made a lot of great strides, but this pain is part of the path to what we ultimately want to be"'. Jae Crowder added 18 and Al Horford 16.

For the 40th-ranked Makarova, the Kerber victory is a first in her career as she lost the four previous times she played a reigning world No. 1. There were contrasting fortunes for the favorites on the opening day of the second grand slam of the year Sunday.

Sullivan said instead of sulking, Guentzel approached the criticism in a way that was beneficial. "I think he just kept going to the same areas, kept competing and if you do that eventually those chances will go in and he got a big one for us (Monday) night".

Boston Celtics rookie Jaylen Brown is questionable for Thursday's Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers because of a right hip pointer, the team announced Wednesday. "He's been the driving force, this entire playoff run, and all of us have just helped us along the way", Irving said. The 93 points produced together by Irving, James and Love are the most they have amassed as a group and the second highest for a trio in team playoff history.

This put Pittsburgh on a two man advantage. The first shift in the third period, we score. Stream every single game of the 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs with Sportsnet NOW . This game started out with Nashville controlling the play entirely. Hrudey laughed when asked if he ever went 30-something minutes - at any level - without facing a shot.

Writing in his column for BBC Sport , Shearer said: "It has been a hard campaign for the Gunners, who missed out on a Champions League place for the first time in 20 years, and they have been under huge pressure - particularly their manager Arsene Wenger ".

Tottenham have also been heavily linked with the attacking midfielder's services and can offer Champions League football - something Arsenal will be unable to provide for the first time since 1997. As of today, the Bavarians seem the closest club to sign Sanchez given that the player's agent reportedly travelled to Germany last week to negotiate the player's move to the Allianz Arena.

Defence has been the question for the Cavaliers all season. It's still unknown if Kerr will be on the bench at any point during the NBA Finals , but he saw firsthand in 2016 that Golden State is vulnerable to an upset. So all things considered, even if ticket prices for the 2017 NBA Finals are down a little compared to prior years, they're still expensive. Durant has been terrific in his first postseason with the Warriors , averaging 25.2 points on 55.6 percent shooting.

His lead is hardly safe, however, with four players within three strokes of him, including Billy Horschel (11-under), Jason Day (10-under), Jason Kokrak (10-under) and Cameron Tringale (9-under). "I know that feeling", Horschel said about Day's unexpected playoff miss. Got to go for win. "I kept telling myself that today and kept trying to believe what he was telling me".

According to Waddell , a cop told him he would be charged with disorderly conduct and would get the ticket in the mail, and that he only received the other two charges later on. We've got to find a way to do this. After taking a 3-0 lead on a Nick Bonino shot that was deflected into the net by Predators defenseman Mattias Ekholm in the first period , the Penguins went a remarkable 37 minutes without a shot on goal.

They're 12-0 in the playoffs. The finalists reached this point with a combined playoff record of 24-1. Yet those teams tended not to face quite the level of opposition in the Finals that these Cavs and Warriors are dealing with. "I mean, he could have only impacted one team, had he stayed in Oklahoma City or gone somewhere else, there's no doubt that team would have been better, but it wouldn't have changed the fortunes for 27 other teams in the league".

From his prioritization of his social life over support of racing overall, to his utmost desire to win at all costs, he's the world championship's version of NASCAR driver Kyle Busch. I came here to prove myself, to challenge myself. 'I regret it. I in no way meant to represent my employer and I apologize to The Denver Post '.

Meanwhile, Danish Caroline Wozniacki made light work of Australian Jaimee Fourlis, winning 6-4, 3-6,6-2 in just over two hours. "No matter whom I play it's going to be hard". "I came on court with a lot of respect". "The rest of the things I am happy with". Raonic fired 15 aces and 44 winners to book a meeting with Brazil's Rogerio Dutra Silva, who saved two match points before overcoming Mikhail Youzhny of Russian Federation in five sets.

We want to keep fighting to qualify for all the major championships. Ramos is a specialist at scoring late, important goals, but this type of finish would surely be his career best if he found the net in a similar fashion on Saturday in Cardiff .

The Mets apologized for the "inappropriate action" of "this employee" a few hours later. "We do not condone this type of behavior". The statement says they "are dealing with this matter internally". Days later, pitcher Matt Harvey did not report to a game, citing a headache, but later admitting that he had stayed up all night partying before playing an early round of golf.

The tradition of tossing catfish onto the ice in Nashville began in 2003. The teams come off a freakish Game 1 that featured a questionable offside review wiping out a goal by P.K. He told police he had taken several prescriptions. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation also expressed their confusion about one of the charges. I have asked the #MetroCouncil office to draft a resolution requesting a pardon for @JacobDeveral .

According to court documents obtained by TribLive.com , Jacob Deveral Waddell, 36, was charged with disorderly conduct, disrupting meetings and possessing instruments of crime. Pittsburgh is 3-3-1 O/U following an Over in these playoffs, with Nashville going 1-1-1 O/U after an Over result. "From my perch, I agree with Mayor Barry that we shouldn't be baited into interfering with this fish tale, but if the charges eventually make their way to a judge I hope the predatory catfish hurler who ...

On October 3, 2014, during Game 1 of the National League Division Series between the Washington Nationals and San Francisco Giants , Bryce Harper stepped in in against Hunter Strickland. "When somebody comes at you like that and throws a 98 miles per hour fastball where he did, I wasn't very happy with it and took it into my hands", he said .

Arsenal secured the services of Arsene Wenger for another two seasons following an agreement made at a board meeting yesterday- but the stability of that deal has not led to a turnaround in contract negotiations with two key players. The Gunners continue to cling to the hope that their star duo will make a u-turn and sign new contracts, believed to be worth £280,000 each, but that seems unlikely, particularly in Sanchez's case.

The Cleveland Cavaliers face the Golden State Warriors for the third consecutive NBA Finals . Golden State , led by two-times reigning league MVP Stephen Curry , are in remarkable form after becoming the first team in league history to enter the Finals undefeated (12-0) since the National Basketball Association went to the current playoff format in 2003.

The two-time Wimbledon champion, who was seeded 15th, lost 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5) to American qualifier Bethanie Mattek-Sands. Defending women's champion Garbine Muguruza Blanco came from a set and a break down to advance over Anett Kontaveit 6-7 (7-4), 6-4, 6-2.